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Bombshell: Govt Official Says Hillary Spearheaded Benghazi Review, Not Independent Board
Daily Beast copied onto Freedom Outpost ^ | May 21, 2013 | Tim Brown

Posted on 05/21/2013 4:58:37 PM PDT by EXCH54FE

One of the four State Department employees, who was recently disciplined by their former boss Hillary Clinton, has broken his silence concerning Benghazi and has leveled some very big charges at the former Secretary of State. He is now indicating that the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her staff were the ones that led the review of the Benghazi attacks, not an independent board.

The Daily Beast reports,

Raymond Maxwell was placed on forced “administrative leave” after the State Department’s own internal investigation, conducted by an Administrative Review Board (ARB) led by former State Department official Tom Pickering. Five months after he was told to clean out his desk and leave the building, Maxwell remains in professional and legal limbo, having been associated publicly with the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other American for reasons that remain unclear.

Maxwell, who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs from August 2011 until his removal last December, following tours in Iraq and Syria, spoke publicly for the first time in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast.

“The overall goal is to restore my honor,” said Maxwell, who has filed grievances regarding his treatment with the State Department’s Human Resources Bureau and the American Foreign Service Association, which represents the interests of foreign-service officers. The other three officials placed on leave were in the Diplomatic Security Bureau, leaving Maxwell as the only official in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA), which had responsibility for Libya, to lose his job.

“I had no involvement to any degree with decisions on security and the funding of security at our diplomatic mission in Benghazi,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 201108; 201212; 2016election; arb; benghazi; election2016; hillary; hillaryclinton; hitlery; iraq; libya; maxwell; raymondmaxwell; southcarolina; syria; treygowdy
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To: Sir Napsalot

Pickering and Mullen. Maybe these guys will do the honorable thing and eat a gun.


61 posted on 05/21/2013 7:36:27 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: EXCH54FE
Like they say, there's always a woman behind a successful man.

Billy is just a standard issue good ol' boy with a broken zipper and enough charisma to get laid or elected.

Hillary is the dangerously ambitious one, with a temper and a full load of guile to go with the full diaper load between her ears.

If the Clinton Body Count belongs to anyone in that household, I'd put my money on Hillary. Her "What difference does it make?!?" performance reminds me of that girl in Phoenix.

62 posted on 05/21/2013 7:59:55 PM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: MestaMachine

That you did :)

How I wish I had someone sitting here with me taking notes, I need a flippin spread sheet to keep up!

Thank you for doing such an amazing job, not sure how you do it but so thankful that you do. I still have to re-read your Dot one page. Crazy week at home.


63 posted on 05/21/2013 8:08:14 PM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: penelopesire
Is there a hearing tomorrow?

Oh yes, and the attorney for the woman at the head of the IRS scandal notified ISSA's office that she will be pleading the 5th Amendment. I know this is not Benghazi but it is still going to be important.

64 posted on 05/21/2013 8:13:38 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

I keep addimg stuff, but don’t worry. It ain’t going nowhere.


65 posted on 05/21/2013 8:15:22 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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To: EXCH54FE

Interesting.


66 posted on 05/21/2013 8:16:17 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: Jim Noble

The IRS scandal has a ‘Clinton’ feel to it. I wonder how long the IRS been targeting conservatives... when we get the truth it might be surprising.


67 posted on 05/21/2013 8:19:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: EXCH54FE

The Battling Boys of Benghazi
(Author unknown)

We’re the Battling Boys of Benghazi,
no fame, no glory, no paparazzi,
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell,
defending the country we loved so well.

It wasn’t our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the consulate, and scaled the wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate,
led them to safety, and stood at the gate.

Just the two of us, and foes by the score,
but we stood fast, to bar the door,
Three calls for reinforcement, but all were denied,
so we fought and we fought, and we fought till we died.

We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
but Barack Obama didn’t give a damn.
Just two dead SEAL’s, who carried the load,
no thanks to us — we were just “bumps in the road.”


68 posted on 05/21/2013 8:30:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's Gotten So Bad for Obama Fox News Changed Its Slogan to "See. I Told You So!"- Leno)
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To: GOPJ

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022280/posts


69 posted on 05/21/2013 8:30:51 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

“This Raymond Maxwell guy is one ballsy dude. He ain’t goin’ down without a fight.”

His honor is already restored in my opinion.


70 posted on 05/21/2013 9:07:28 PM PDT by Bshaw (,A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Clay Moore

“Just like in Whitewater, she will just sit up there and say “I have no recollection of that.””

Where is her highness? I thought she was running in 2016? Where is she? Let’s hear that message Hillary! C’mon, you’re WANTED, grace the masses with your presence!!


71 posted on 05/21/2013 9:12:11 PM PDT by Bshaw (,A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: b4its2late

Thanks for the ping!


72 posted on 05/21/2013 9:15:30 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: EXCH54FE

Pickering had best start taking his
“I don’t remember, I don’t recall” pills
this week, to be sure that he is at full
effectiveness next week after he raises his right hand


73 posted on 05/21/2013 9:30:28 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: peeps36

................. What a heartless whore................

No, Hitlery is colder than a whore’s heart!


74 posted on 05/21/2013 9:37:50 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: MestaMachine
IF, and a big if, Hillary walks away (she might) after all the Benghazi dust settled -

Think on how much she is going to OWE to a whole bunch of people. There is no way she should be running for potus, she's compromised on Benghazi alone.

Just a thought.

75 posted on 05/22/2013 4:30:23 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: matginzac

Nope, Upsteak Gnu Yak! There are some of us left...


76 posted on 05/22/2013 4:44:18 AM PDT by Shady (Abolish The IRS and Obamacare...it isn't going to cure anything...)
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

He has a new cretin-in-law waiting to swoop in and take over where these two have screwed up...all part of the grand plan to get all of the.money.


77 posted on 05/22/2013 4:47:19 AM PDT by Shady (Abolish The IRS and Obamacare...it isn't going to cure anything...)
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To: Jim Noble
You know, the wife of the man who said about Obama, “a few years ago he’d be getting us our coffee”.

"I'll have a mocha latte with whip cream on top in a blue cup.
And don't spill any."

"Does anybody else want coffee?"

78 posted on 05/22/2013 7:48:57 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" is more than an Army Ranger credo it's the character of America.)
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To: EXCH54FE

bump


79 posted on 03/11/2015 5:53:05 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ...
Thanks Ernest. She hands over hardcopy, states that she *won't* turn over the server, and claims not that she was in compliance with the law -- she broke the law -- but not to worry, the system was secure, *even though we already know that it was hacked more than once.*

80 posted on 03/11/2015 12:20:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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